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After 10 PM EST on Friday, The U.S. Senate rejected a deal that would fund the U.S. government for another month:
Only five Democrats voted to advance the bill — Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), who are all up for reelection this year in states carried by President Trump in 2016 election, and newly-elected Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.).
Republicans were also not united, as Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) also voted against advancing the legislation. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is battling brain cancer, was absent.
The procedural vote remained open late Friday, though it needed 60 votes to pass and was well short of that number with 48 senators voting against it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer continued to negotiate after the vote opened (archive), but no deal has been reached yet. As of midnight (5 minutes before this story went live), the government shutdown was in effect.
At Wikipedia: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Government shutdowns in the United States.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:41AM (1 child)
Don't times like these call for some light an entertaining aristarchus submissions? We could just forget about Washington, and worry about Hungary instead!
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#freearistarchus!
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 20 2018, @03:52PM
No.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:20PM (7 children)
We don't actually care. Feel free to stay shut down as long as you like.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:39PM (2 children)
I concur. Let them stay shut down, and let everyone realize how much better our lives are without Washington, DC in it. That's the real risk for the uniparty, for us all to snap out of the fever dream the way we have been in other respects this past year, and realize that the world can be a much different place than the one they've painted us into.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:22PM (1 child)
I bet they don't stop spending whatever it takes to collect our taxes during the shutdown...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:15PM
Unfortunately, my tax money is already allocated to bullets for tax collectors.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:44PM (3 children)
When they sent "non-essential" personel home did they send Trump home or is he still at Mar-a-Lago golfing?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:07PM (2 children)
You seriously need to ask? He'll be at Mar-a-lago "working harder than Obama ever did".
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:27PM (1 child)
Obama was a better golfer and didn't need to practice as much. Trump swings like a rusty gate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @02:51AM
Trump plays with his putter too much.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by srobert on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:51PM
I gave my dog a new stuffed toy for Christmas. A few days later my sister asked me to babysit her dog. So my dog and her dog had a tug of war over the toy. The toy wound up in pieces and stuffing all over the floor. I think I heard my dog say that it was the other dog's fault. I'm sure my sister's dog can say the same.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:21PM (2 children)
Somehow we won two World Wars without Blackwater, Haliburton, etc. Dump these leaches, and we will save tons of money on the Military.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:33PM
The first-ever Pentagon audit report should come out in November. That should provide some entertainment.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/364001-pentagon-starting-first-ever-financial-audit [thehill.com]
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-unaffordable-pentagon-audit-23784 [nationalinterest.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:54PM
To fight World War II we drafted 100% of the car companies. We ordered them to stop making cars. They made tanks, jeeps, and aircraft. We drafted 100% of the white good (dishwasher, clothes washer, clothes dryer, refrigerator, etc.) manufacturers. We put them to work for the war. We drafted the TV and radio manufacturers. We drafted the shipyards. We drafted the phone company...
That works great when research and development isn't much beyond determining how to bolt guns onto a tractor.
If it takes a decade to build a stealth aircraft or a decade to design and build a modern nuclear submarine, we're toast unless we have that already done. Modern war can be fast.
Taken to the extreme: oh no, an ICBM was just launched at us! SpaceX, we demand that you design and build a solution in the next 15 minutes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:50PM (1 child)
So let me guess, these senate turds are still going to get THEIR paychecks, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @02:06AM
Yes, because...wait for it...they are considered essential. No, I'm not kidding. This country is fucked.